The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.